Intercultural Communication and Ideology
Межкультурная коммуникация и идеология
2011-01-01
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Preface and methodology Chapter 1: Key Discussions Essentialism Neo-Essentialism Cosmopolitanism Imagined Certainty versus Acknowledged Complexity Chapter 2: Critical Cultural Awareness Models of Awareness A Reconstructed Narrative Critical Interpretivism A Decentred Reading Opening up Cultural Possibilities Chapter 3: Cultural Complexity Informants An Emergent Methodology Statements of Cultural Identity Competing Social Theories Complexity and Politics Thinking about China Chapter 4: The Indelible Politics of Self and Other Othering The Morality of 'Helping' Struggling with Identity Recognition Understanding the Discourse Politics of Othering Chapter 5: Un-Noticed Periphery Identities Claiming the World 'Westernization' and Modernity Chapter 6: A Grammar of Culture Negotiating Culture Particular Content and Universal Process Particular Social and Political Structures Particular Cultural Products Underlying Universal Cultural Processes Chapter 7: Discourses of Cultural Disbelief Penetrating Professional Discourses Sustained Disbelief The Intercultural Line and the Third Space Chapter 8: Creative Cultural Engagement Qing and the Seminar Learning from the Margins Chapter 9: Culture, Real or Imagined? The Centrality of Ideology The Fact of Ideology Cultural Realism Conclusion Glossary
Key Findings
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A proposed 'grammar of culture' distinguishes negotiating culture, particular content and universal processes, and links social/political structures with cultural products.
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Creative cultural engagement and learning from margins (e.g., Qing and the seminar) are advocated as productive intercultural practices.
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Critical cultural awareness is reframed through models of awareness, reconstructed narrative, critical interpretivism, and decentred reading to open cultural possibilities.
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Cultural complexity requires emergent methodologies using informants, statements of identity, and competing social theories, with specific attention to China.
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Ideology is central to questions of culture: the text asserts the 'fact of ideology' and considers cultural realism in its conclusion.
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Intercultural communication debates contrast essentialism/neo-essentialism with cosmopolitanism, highlighting imagined certainty versus acknowledged complexity.
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Periphery identities are often unnoticed yet claim world significance, engaging issues of 'Westernization' and modernity.
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Politics shape self–other relations: othering, the morality of 'helping', identity struggles, recognition, and the discourse politics of othering are central.
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Professional and public discourses exhibit sustained cultural disbelief, which the intercultural line and the third space attempt to penetrate.
Research Object
Intercultural communication practices and cultural phenomena
Research Subject
The ideological dimensions, theories, and critical analyses of culture including essentialism, cosmopolitanism, cultural complexity, othering, identity politics, and cultural realism
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